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The 1,700-ton destroyer Rodman was commissioned yesterday in the navy yard in Brooklyn, another formidable hunter of "enemies who follow no ethics of warfare and who know no limits as to brutality," in the words of Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the Third Naval District and commander of the North Atlantic Naval Coastal Frontier.

January 28, 1942

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